Answer:
2 similes: John runs fast as lightning, My little sister works as slow as a turtle
2 metaphors: You are my guardian angel, The kids at school are all brains
Explanation:
Similes:
Today I am feeling fresh as a daisy
John runs fast as lightning
My friend is as stubborn as a mule
My little sister works as slow as a turtle
Without my glasses, I am as blind as a bat
Metaphors:
Your friend is just a big baby
You are my guardian angel
His students are puppets on a string
I wish you weren't always a chicken
The kids at school are all brains
Answer: dreams and ambition by using metaphors.
Explanation: As you know, a metaphor is acomparison between things that are not related with each other at first sight, that is why that In the given excerpt from Act II of "Hamlet" by William Shakespeare, we can see the use of metaphors to compare and describe dreams (by comparing them to ambition and shadow: "Which dreams, indeed, are ambition" and "A dream itself is but a shadow") and ambition (by comparing it to a shadow's that can be: "and I hold ambition of so airy and light a quality that it is but a shadow’s shadow". Hope this helps.